GLOOM

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Traducere în limba română

gloom I. substantiv

1. obscuritate, întuneric, întunecime, beznă.

2. (fig.) depresiune, tristeţe; melancolie, întristare, mâhnire;

to cast a gloom over / upon a arunca un val de tristeţe peste / asupra (cu gen.).

3. perspectivă întunecată.

4. uscătorie (pentru praf de puşcă).

gloom II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a se întuneca la faţă, a se posomorî, a se încrunta, a lua un aer posac;

to gloom at smb. a privi posomorât la cineva.

2. (despre vreme) a se înnora, a se întuneca, a se închide, a se posomorî, a se mohorî.

gloom II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a întuneca; a umbri.

2. a întrista, a mâhni.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The figure passed me quickly, and I lost it in the gloom.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Quicker and quicker danced the dust; the moonbeams seemed to quiver as they went by me into the mass of gloom beyond.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She held up one shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He relapsed again into gloom.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The same story and the same raptures were repeated, when the two girls came with their father, through the gloom of the evening, to make enquiries; and Mr Musgrove, no longer under the first uneasiness about his heir, could add his confirmation and praise, and hope there would be now no occasion for putting Captain Wentworth off, and only be sorry to think that the cottage party, probably, would not like to leave the little boy, to give him the meeting.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Again and again I glanced round swiftly, with the conviction that I was about to see something, but only to meet the dark tangle of our hedge or the solemn and cavernous gloom of the great trees which arched above our heads.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In that house, which she had hardly entered twice a year since Mr. Norris's death, she became a welcome, an invited guest, and in the gloom and dirt of a November day, most acceptable to Mary Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It was such a strange scene to me, and so confined and dark, that, at first, I could make out hardly anything; but, by degrees, it cleared, as my eyes became more accustomed to the gloom, and I seemed to stand in a picture by OSTADE.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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